Word: swimmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swimmer Mark Spitz, then an 18-year-old high school graduate from Santa Clara, Calif., returned from the 1968 Olympics with two gold medals, one silver and one bronze-and a feeling of failure. Goaded by the press corps in Mexico City and supremely self-confident, Spitz had unwisely spoken of winning five or even six gold medals in the freestyle, butterfly, medley and relay events. "I tried not to believe all I was reading about myself, but I wound up believing every word of it," he says. "After the Olympics, I was more than disappointed. I was downright depressed...
...laid out full length inside a pink ziggurat-shaped tomb. The cadaver was a huge success; it toured to London and the Kassel Documenta. For his show at the Stable this spring, he chose a far subtler and less sensational idea: a latex cast showing himself as an underwater swimmer with shoals of delicate small fish clinging to his sides. It was suspended from a tree in the backyard, seeming somehow both pathetic and portentous, like a drowning prophet. Says Thek: "I didn't make it to be beautiful or ugly, or bad or good. I just...
Murphy, whose career was threatened last year by an injury suffered when he hit his head on the board in the Yale meet, has now won four post-season awards, more than any Harvard swimmer in history...
...closest race came in the butterfly relay. East and South turned in equal times of 47.0 seconds, but East House anchorman Miss Anderson touched out South House's final swimmer...
Cahalan, one of coach Bill Brooks' four outstanding sophomore freestylers, was superb against Yale. He was the first Crimson swimmer to win Saturday as he tied the pool record of 21.9 in the 200-free...